A set of phrases
are commonplace today, you see it in the news, the print media, social
networks, everywhere: unprecedented crisis, mounting death toll, economic
impact and accelerated vaccine development to name a few.
With this “unprecedented
crisis”, we, as a global community are advised to follow some guidelines. The
most important of which is to avoid contact as far as possible. Given the
characteristics of the virus, this is a no brainer.
While the battle against the virus rages in the world under the spotlight of global media, there is an undertone to the whole exercise: the”unprecedented” increase in hours spent in front of digital screens.